sorry, for sounding like a noob, but original oem? the driver problem seems to be the problem to me too. but you mean i'd need to reinstall the realtek drivers and chipset drivers both? update them...

thank you, that was something i forgot about, definitely helpful even though not directly related to my problem.

If you have the same problem, we can at least narrow it down to being a problem with the OS?

The internet keeps dropping every now and then, becomes unresponsive and then starts working again.
Long download speeds are broken and not continuous. Is it Windows 10?
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